“We melt; we tear and rip apart. Membrane, baby. Cellophane. Ain't that some shit.”
“Another big ripping sound. Jesus. Had they brought supernatural dynamite in to tear the whole place apart?”
“For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.”
“But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.”
“Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.”
“Time had been something we feared, but with the babies the things that held time together - the years, the months, the weeks, the days - melted and flowed toward the future.”